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| | School massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | A school massacre is an incident of attempted (The savage and excessive killing of many people) mass murder, involving at least one actual (The event of dying or departure from life) death, that occurs at a (An educational institution) school. |
 | | In the United States, school violence, especially of the gang-related sort, is more common in poor, inner-city schools, but student-perpetrated school massacres most often occur in affluent (A residential district located on the outskirts of a city) suburbs. |
 | | A secondary danger of school shootings is that, like youth (The act of killing yourself) suicide, they have a tendency to inspire "copycat" incidents or even epidemics of the same behavior. |
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